Posts Tagged ‘pipeline’

Iraq has launched its latest oil export infrastructure expansion project; a new pipeline that would carry crude from southern Iraq across Jordan to the port of Aqaba on the Red Sea. When completed, the pipeline would carry crude from the southern oil fields in Basrah and Missan, as well as the Midland fields such as Nassiriya, Gharaf and Badra to be exported through a new terminal, primarily to markets in Asia.

The pipeline will be built in two sections, under two separate contracts. The first will consist of a new …

Iraq’s oil ministry and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have held talks in recent weeks that could pave the way to export oil produced in the northern region by international oil companies. They could also possibly open the way for an agreement between the federal government and the KRG on the contested production sharing contracts awarded by the KRG in recent years, Iraqi sources said

In the initial talks, the two sides aim to reach an agreement on the technical issues for exporting oil, produced by Norway’s …

The Iraqi oil ministry is tendering a contract to build a pipeline linking the Akkas gas field in northwest Iraq to the Syrian border with the aim of starting exports to Syria within a year of contract award, a senior Iraqi official said Wednesday.

Akkas was discovered in the late 1990s, and six wells were drilled there by a Syrian contractor before the US-led invasion in 2003. Under a first phase of development, Iraq’s State Co. for Oil Projects (Scop) hopes to send gas to Syria for …